In early 2023, Jane Clark Scharl debuted her verse drama Sonnez Les Matines to appreciative audiences in New York City. The ability to sustain a successful drama in verse—and good verse, at that—was a worthy testament […]
Over the past few weeks I’ve delved into the treasure halls of Peter Ramey’s new translation of an ancient epic, Beowulf. As I wade through the “word hoard,” I find myself immersed in a world […]
A true poetics engages the real. A true poetics is not kitsch or sentimentalism. As Flannery O’Connor reminds us, the best writing and poetry “is a plunge into reality and it’s very shocking to the […]
Let me begin by sharing two observations, one made by me, the other by the poet Dana Gioia. The first is this. Some years ago, a young man wrote to me, stating that, after a […]
In beginning and ending in the underworld, Dana Gioia’s new book of poetry Meet Me At The Lighthouse gives his latest poems an arresting perspective from which he can essay subjects of profound import, including […]
The great American poet and critic Yvor Winters (1900-1968) was sometimes mistaken for a Catholic, though he himself just barely owned to being a “theist,” and he deemed even that modest statement an “unfortunate” admission. […]
The poet, literary biographer, and Catholic spiritual writer, Paul Mariani published his last book of poems, Ordinary Time, in 2019. Much of it written in the aftermath of his recovery from a brain tumor, the […]
Church Teaching – On Dr. Larry Chapp Presents, Dr. Chapp Interviews Eduardo Echeverria On Vatican II. Dr. Eduardo Echeverria Discusses Vatican II and Pope Francis (Gaudium et Spes 22) Gender Pronouns – Los Angeles Unified […]
The New Authoritarians – What changed in March 2020? How have things played out? What are the causes? What can we expect, looking ahead? Evil In Our Time: Naomi Wolf on the Covid Response (Brownstone […]
Robert Asch is co-founder, with Joseph Pearce, of the Saint Austin Review, a British-American magazine devoted to Catholic culture, and the editor of the Saint Austin Press. He edited, compiled, and wrote the notes for […]
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